- Official Post
Display MoreAlpha builds are an important part of our long-term test strategy. Our developers do high quality testing but we are small in number, don’t have every device to test with, and often sidestep problems without realising. The project needs a community of regular testers with a larger selection of hardware and more ‘human’ behaviour to find problems we miss.
Thorough testing will be particularly important for LibreELEC 9.0 as Kodi v18 brings major video changes and introduces new retro gaming capabilities.At this stage it’s too early to talk about release dates but we do want to talk about LibreELEC releasing 9.0 shortly after Kodi push their v18.0 release. It would be awesome if the time gap is small, but our priority is a stable release not fast release.
If there are outstanding issues when Kodi v18.0 ships we may hold LibreELEC 9.0 back until v18.1 or needed patches become available.TEST NOTES
The current focus for Alpha testing is the OS core. Right now we’re more interested in hardware/driver things that don’t work than Kodi issues. LibreELEC v8.90.003 is only available for Generic x86_64 and Raspberry Pi devices.
Amlogic (KVIM, Odroid C2, WeTek Play1&2/Core/Hub) and Rockchip are “work in progress” but we have visibility on developer progress and hope to start Alpha builds for them in the near future.
If you have found a problem please report them to the Forum or to our Bugtracker (forum account required).
RPi users with IR remotes may have a look at our Wikipage – dtoverlay=lirc-rpi is now deprecated.
** CAUTION **
Alpha builds exist for hands-on testing not a hands-off experience. If you run Alpha builds you must be willing to report issues via the forums and engage the LibreELEC and Kodi developers in hunting bugs. If you have no idea what a debug log is or “wife acceptance factor” is critical, these builds are not for you.
If you want to run Alpha builds please make a backup and store it somewhere safe (off-box) first. Your failure to make a backup is not our problem.
Enjoy 🙂
LibreELEC LE9 Alpha 003 (Kodi 18 Alpha 3)
RPi 2/3 LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.90.003.img.gz (info)
RPi 0/1 LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.90.003.img.gz (info)
Generic LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.90.003.img.gz (info)You can also download it with our USB-SD Creator tool.